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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/22 @ Yuengling Center, Tampa
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Spanish thrash metal band from Madrid, active since 2000. With two-and-a-half decades of brutal noise, they are a veteran of Madrid's thrash scene.
Finnish post-black metal band from Valkeakoski, formed in 2021. They deliver brutally atmospheric post-black metal from the Pirkanmaa industrial town.
Punishing brutal death metal from Torres Novas, formed in 2008. Guttural vocals scrape the basement of human register while churning riffs and gravity-blast percussion pummel with mechanical precision.
Death metal band from Marseille, active since 2008 with a discography spanning albums Hate Over All, From Despotism to Chaos, and Death Row. A veteran of the southern French death metal underground with nearly two decades of crushing output.
Spanish black/death metal band from Chiclana de la Frontera in Cádiz province, active since 2008. They deliver bestial slaughter from the Atlantic coast of Andalusia.
Old-school death metal band from the Occitanie region of France, formed in 2021. Their debut World Decomposing by Vermin delivers eight tracks of classic OSDM with morbid themes of decay and warfare across a tightly packed thirty-three minutes.
Tavira-based thrash metal act active since 2023, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Portuguese filter.
Spanish band from Algeciras in Cádiz, active since 1996, whose sound evolved from thrash/death metal toward groove metal and alternative rock. Their three decades of stylistic evolution span the full spectrum from extreme metal to accessible groove.
Varese-based groove metal act active since 2014, anchoring their sound in mid-tempo, syncopated riffing designed to generate maximum physical impact. Their chunky, headbang-inducing compositions channel the spirit of Pantera and Lamb of God.
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